'Looper'

Jay Bobbin

Time travel gets clever twists in writer-director Rian Johnson's ("Brick") enjoyable fantasy-adventure, as Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis play the younger and older incarnations of the same futuristic character, a professional killer. His older self is sent back several decades, where his younger version is meant to kill him and "close the loop" ... but things don't go quite that smoothly.